BAPC Events for week of 4/19-4/25

[Heather Kauth <hkauth buphy bu edu>]

April 19- April 25, 2004
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday, April 19, 2004
Monday, April 19, 2004, 4:30 p.m.*
Brown University
Barus and Holley 168
Professor R. Blankebecler, SLAC/Stanford University
Title: "TBA"
Host: Professor Herbert Fried
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.
Monday, April 19th @ 1:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Recent Progress Toward the Realization of Quantum Networks"
Professor H. Jeff Kimble
California Institute of Technology

Monday, April 19, 2004 @4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Virus-Based Genetic Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and
Semiconducting Nanowires and Self-assembling Structures"
Angela Belcher
MIT
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Kolker Room- 26-414
`Looking for Inflation in Warped Compactifications of String Theory"
Oliver DeWolfe
Princeton University
Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM

Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity"
Professor Frank Wilczek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 4:30 p.m.*
Harvard University,
Room: Jefferson 356,
Center for Ultra-Cold Atoms Seminar
Professor G. Shlyapnikov
Orsay
Title: "Quantum degenerate regimes in ultracold Fermi gases"
Host: Professor John Doyle
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Giant Hedge-hogs: Spikes on Giant Gravitons"
Mohammad Sheikh-Jabbari
Stanford
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Dr. Costas Soukoulis
Ames Labs
"The Strange properties of left-handed materials"
Refreshments
Higgins Hall, Room 230L
3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256
"Cold Atoms Without Laser Cooling: The Frontier of Buffer-Gas Cooling"
Dr. Jack Harris
Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 2:30PM
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Physics Department
Brown University
To be announced
<http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>*
Prof. Daniel Kabat (Columbia U)

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Thursday, April 22nd, 2004, 12pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Evaporation-driven assembly of colloidal particles"
Eric Lauga
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 1:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics,
Building 6, third floor seminar room
Special Lattice Lunch club Talk
``Transport Coefficients on the Lattice"
Sourendu Gupta
TATA Institute

Thursday, 22 April 2004, 2:30PM
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Physics Department
Brown University
Non-Renormalization Theorems, Holography, and the Non-Abelian 
<http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>
DBI Action in a Curved Background <http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>*
Dr. Zachary Guralnik (Humboldt Univ.)

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Feeding of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes"
Paul Martini
Clay Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
· tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:00 p.m
Brown University
Barus and Holley 190.
Dr. Kerwyn Casey Huang, MIT
Title: "TBA"
Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series
10-250
Charles Holbrow, Colgate University
“Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Essentials of Physics Teaching”
3:45pm, refreshments, 4-339

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
Title: TBA
Jerome Gauntlett
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45

Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256
"Cold Atoms Without Laser Cooling: The Frontier of Buffer-Gas Cooling"
Dr. Jack Harris
Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


Friday, April 23, 2004

Friday, April 23, 2004 at 3:30 PM
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium, Room 112
Anthropic Predictions for Dark Energy and Neutrino Masses
Professor Alex Vilenkin
Tufts University
Refreshments in Anderson Hall, Burden Lounge, Room 108 at 3:00
Friday, Apr. 23rd, 4:00 PM
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
“Critical Casimir Effect in 3D Ising Systems: Measurements on Thin 
Binary Wetting Films”
Masafumi Fukuto
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.


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